Spiritual Mentoring

About Spiritual Mentoring/Coaching

Laura supports people who feel they are in an awakening experience or who feel stuck in old patterns and are ready to experience more peace in their lives through a spiritual approach.

Laura helps clients by offering a non-dual spiritual perspective that can lift them out of push/pull, victim/victimizer thinking, while staying very practical and grounded in the everyday. She validates their insights, asks helpful questions, shares from her own path, and suggests more empowering perspectives for dealing with stressful life situations. As she gets to know her client, she often recommends books or teachings or practices that she thinks may resonate with them.

Reiki and/or hypnotherapy may be recommended to assist with releasing fear and other blocks as they arise.

Laura's spiritual perspective

The spiritual path is a process of undoing fear and guilt and separation belief (ego), and developing trust in our Love Identity. Love (or what you can call God or the Holy Spirit or Source) is the true Mind of us. It is who we are that is never born and never dies and is beyond the body. We have dissociated from this Self; it is like we are having a dream, and we have to wake up. Awakening requires our effort, because there is a tremendous unconscious fear of Love. We have to go gently, learn to trust an Inner Teacher, and develop patience and willingness to look at what the ego would like to keep hidden.

What to Expect over the course of your sessions

1. Prioritize your spiritual life. Laura will spend sometime getting to know you and your spiritual beliefs and practices (if you have any.) Clients are encouraged prioritize this part of their lives, because a spiritual life requires the development of Trust. Undoing ego takes motivation, courage, and effort.

2. Find a spiritual path or inspiration. Laura will ask that you find inspirational material if you don't already have a spiritual path, and make suggestions if you would like some writings to consider. A spiritual teaching is like a strategy -- an invitation to shift our paradigm -- for relating to suffering and the material world. We need new inspiration and hope and instruction, and we need to apply what we learn. Laura can suggest some approaches and teachings if clients are interested. For instance, A Course in Miracles, Ken Wapnick, Robert Adams, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Michael Singer, Helen Hamilton, Joel Goldsmith, Lester Levenson, Adyashanti, Ramana Maharshi, and many other expressions of non-dual spirituality would be compatible.

   
   

3. Become a student in your life's spiritual classrooms. Clients are taught to connect to their Inner Teacher (intuition or spiritual symbol like angels, Jesus, etc.) and to use their lives as a laboratory. Any new teachings and ideas we take in need to be applied in the "laboratory" of our lives.

Laura's pointers and perspectives are based on her personal experiences and views, but she insists clients never take anything she says as true just because she says it. Spiritual ideas can be radical by nature -- they come from a different level of consciousness. So try what resonates out, then go by effects or what you sense is helpful for you. Do more of what is working to bring more peace and a sense of rightness.

Laura will help you by reflecting back your new awareness and successes, giving you validation in your progress (which doesn't always LOOK like progress), encouraging you, and giving you new food for thought. She also urges us all to laugh a lot -- we humans can make things so serious, but laughter is the fast track.

We are all unique and we are all "works in progress." Your own path is unique to you, even if you follow teachings from someone else. Be gentle with yourself and learn to trust the process.